Code of Maine Rules
13 - DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES
188 - MARINE RESOURCES - GENERAL
Chapter 55 - GEAR RESTRICTIONS
Section 188-55-05 - Use of purse, drag or stop seines in certain waters prohibited; regulation of fishing therein

A. In Kennebec River above a line drawn across said river from Fort Popham in the Town of Phippsburg to a point opposite at the lower end of Long Island in the Town of Georgetown.

B. Purse, drag or stop seines may be used, from May 15th to December 1st of each year in all bays, inlets, rivers, and harbors east of the west shore of the Penobscot Bay and River, except in which places where sections of this chapter are to the contrary, in which places purse seines, drag seines and stop seines may be used from May 15th to November 15th of each year for the purpose of catching herring.